Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: Painted over

Here’s a bittersweet scene if you’re a fan of the ‘Mighty Fine Line’. Much of Rock Island’s motive power & general rolling stock survived The Rock’s March 1980 demise. But so did a considerable number of Rock Island’s bay window cabeese. Here’s a string of them at Council Bluffs, freshly painted into UP yellow.

1. UP 24511 sits at the tail end of a long string of freshly painted, ex-Rock Island cabeese in Council Bluffs, IA on May 7, 1982.
(photo by James W. Watson)

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels (santafe199)
Jim Watson (UP6900)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/07/22 21:21 by santafe199.

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Great photo.

I had always wondered how UP ended up with BW cabooses have having the cupola type for
so many years.

Regards, Jim Evans

That is an awesome photo Lance. Good work. I remember riding them when just the ends were yellow.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Didn't some bay window cabeese also come to UP from Western Pacific?

UP acquired bay window cars from MP, WP, and CRIP, probably a few from CNW and SP as well. But they had their own too. Don't forget the CA-11/CA-11M and CA-12 shorty bay window cars, which were built new for UP, started showing up in 1979.

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Mike Mucklin, ... the voodoo surf-god of cabooses. 

I wasn't aware that the UP bought any original cabooses with the patio ends.

Rick

What a neat shot!
JB